Peter Maßmann

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Peter Maßmann (* 13. February 1916 ; † 20th February 2000 in Saulheim in Mainz ) was a German theater actor - director and - intendant .

Life

Peter Maßmann trained as an actor and director at the State Drama School in Hamburg from 1937 to 1939. He gained his first experience as an actor at the Rostock City Theater and the Oldenburg State Theater .

After the war he was first an actor at the Stadttheater Wuppertal , then from 1950 (or even earlier) until 1960 an actor at the Städtische Bühnen Gelsenkirchen , where he was also employed as an assistant director in 1953 and from the following year directed plays and operettas himself . In his last year in Gelsenkirchen he was the deputy general manager. This was followed by his first directorship at the Osnabrück Theater am Domhof from 1960 to 1968.

In 1967 Maßmann was traded for one of the four vacant directorships in Braunschweig , Aachen , Basel and Wiesbaden . In fact, in 1968 he became General Director of the Aachen City Theaters . He worked there until the end of 1980 and was officially adopted in a ceremony on June 24, 1981. During his tenure, Maßmann succeeded in converting the theater into a municipal company . He was able to increase the occupancy rate of his own house and sign a contract for 40 guest performances with the city of Rheydt . Its innovations also include the inclusion of musicals in the program.

His daughter Yvonne Maßmann (* 1950) was an actress at the Stadttheater Gießen . It is to her that Maßmann owes the discovery and engagement of tenor Willy Schell, who would otherwise have moved from Gießen to Augsburg instead of establishing a decades-long bond with Aachen.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [Obituary] . In: Aachener Zeitung . No. 44/2000 , February 22, 2000, pp. 7 .
  2. ↑ a b c Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of the celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Maßmann, Peter, p. 296 .
  3. ^ A b Wilhelm Steffens: "In Aachen you go to the theater." The director Maßmann and his successes . In: Theater Today . No. 5/1972 . Erhard Friedrich Verlag, Velber near Hanover May 1972, theater portrait, p. 25-28 .
  4. ↑ a b Information from the German Stage Yearbooks of the Cooperative of German Stage Members , which, however, could not appear annually in the first time after the war and therefore do not allow exact dates.
  5. ↑ Ernst Wendt : The opera is at the top . In: Theater Today . Magazine for drama, opera, ballet. No. 3/1962 . Erhard Friedrich Verlag, Velber near Hanover March 1962, Profile, p. 40 f .
  6. ↑ H [enning] R [ischbieter] : The intendant game or: Who comes after whom? In: Theater Today . Magazine for drama, opera, ballet. No. 1/1967 . Erhard Friedrich Verlag, Velber near Hanover January 1967, magazine, p. 46 .
  7. ↑ Chronicle of the City of Aachen from 1976 to 2007. (PDF; 5 MB) In: aachen.de. City of Aachen, Administrative Management Department, accessed on January 23, 2019 .
  8. ^ Eckhard Hoog: Tenor Willy Schell at the Theater Aachen for 25 years. An artist from Aachen is celebrating a rare anniversary these days, who can justifiably claim to belong to an extinct species. In: aachener-zeitung.de. August 13, 2002, accessed January 23, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Maßmann, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Massmann, Peter (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, director and theater manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1916
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2000
Place of death Saulheim